If a copy of copia on one chromosome is not matched by a similar copy on the chromosome it is paired with, then it may try to recombine with a copiaelement on a different chromosome.
ECONOMIST: Truly selfish genes
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In collaboration with Elena Pasyukova at the Institute of Molecular Genetics, in Moscow, and Trudy Mackay of North Carolina State University at Raleigh, he has been studying a transposable element known as copia.